LOS ANGELES - A jury Wednesday handed a $33 million verdict to a black surgeon who claimed he was roughed up by the Los Angele...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Board of Supervisors has agreed to present voters with a charter amendment that would provide prosecutors,...
BEVERLY HILLS - The Bank of America Building at 9440 Santa Monica Blvd. in the Golden Triangle has sold for $21.9 million to I...
LOS ANGELES - To some, Deputy District Attorney Steven Ipsen is a bold crusader for the rights of Los Angeles County prosecuto...
Administrative/Regulatory
Applying Law on Agency Due Process Is Difficult for Courts
By Columnist
Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Two recent Court of Appeal decisions address some of the complicated pr...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court Tuesday reversed a jury verdict clearing a reality TV show of intentionally recording parents...
SAN FRANCISCO - California officials, worried that the Bush administration is too cozy with polluters, have gone to court to t...
SAN FRANCISCO - State prisons director Edward Alameida faces mounting criticism in the state Senate and a federal court over a...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge sanctioned a prosecutor in a harshly worded order Tuesday for executing improper searche...
Appellate Practice
Heir Withdraws Lawsuit to Block L.A. Exhibit of Looted Paintings
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - The partial heir to a renowned Russian art patron who sued to halt the exhibition of Bolshevik-looted paintings ...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to slash the Vehicle License Fee, with no assurance he can replace the bill...
SAN FRANCISCO - The emergency roadside assistance features in some luxury cars can also be used as roving bugs by the FBI to l...
MARTINEZ - Toward the end of a recent continuing education program in the Peter L. Spinetta Family Law Center in Martinez, fam...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - In a survey by the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board released in October, 12 per...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel Monday sought guidance from lawyers in crafting new law on whether legal arguments in c...
ANTIOCH - Keegin & Coppin Co . broker Ronald Stauber closed the $1.3 million sale of 21,000 square feet of industrial spa...
On Nov. 12, professor Catherine Fisk argued that the Senate should not confirm the president's nomination of Los Angeles Supe...
Focus Column Probate Law By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley In In the Matter of the Erma Mary Olivera Trust , 2003 DJDA...
LOS ANGELES - Mary Cranston will serve another term as chairwoman of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop after her partners vo...
WASHINGTON - Declining to jump back into the affirmative action debate after its major ruling last term, the Supreme Court on...
Government
Hollywood Wiretap Anxiety: Sometimes, It's Not Just in Your Head
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams Sometimes, paranoia is not a fantasy. Sometimes, your phone really is tapped. Sometimes, the strange n...
AUBURN - Virtually everyone who has come into contact with Placer County Superior Court Judge Richard Couzens has a good word...
VENTURA - Ventura Superior Court Judge John E. Dobroth spent Halloween day shuttling between two courts. In the morning and af...
Forum Column By Jay Handlin In deciding the appeal in Newton v. Diamond , the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had a chance ...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a strong rebuke to his own court Saturday, saying its creati...
Law Practice
Reporter's Notebook: 'Mr. Green Is Not Going to Be Appearing'
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara defense attorney Dennis Alan Lempert has won a battle against what he considers an attempt by a judge ...
The budget woes that have given the Golden State the lowest credit rating in the nation complicated a recent $3 billion financ...
Five hundred civil rights boosters from the Bay Area and beyond clambered up the ramp of San Francisco's Palace Hotel on Oct. ...
Football players often land themselves a spot on the clip reel for their hard hits on the field, but they're supposed to be sl...
INDIO - The $9.3 million in financing for the 10-building Las Brisas and the six-building Tres Flores apartment complexes was...